Sunday, October 23, 2011

10/23/2011
It is not strange that Noynoy
and former President Fidel V. Ramos are speaking in one voice against
the launching of an all-out war against the Moro Islamic Liberation
Front (MILF) despite the blatant aggression of the group in the
encounter in Basilan that resulted in the death of 19 soldiers.

Also,
it was not unlikely for Noynoy to seemingly fold up and blame the
military for the incident while taking great care and making all the
assurances to the MILF that the peace negotiations are not affected by
the secessionist group’s own violation of the ceasefire.

Both Fast
Eddie and Noynoy cited the displacing of civilian residents for
opposing a major offensive against the MILF as if the current situation
where the rebels hold portions of Mindanao as strongholds is a preferred
way for a peaceful set up..... MORE

10/23/2011
Yes, unbelievable! We
actually have a president and commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of
the Philippines (AFP) who refuses to have the soldiery fight the
secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) because, as he claims,
an all-out war will exact “a high price in blood,” as such an all-out
war will only result in a “terrible toll on human lives,” particularly
among the people of Mindanao.

He doesn’t think, apparently, that
his position in not allowing the soldiers to fight the MILF — nor
apparently, even go near those claimed MILF-held areas as soldiers will
be shot down by the rebels — is exacting a high price of the blood of
our soldiers whose widows they leave behind.

It is moronic of
Noynoy to even make such a statement publicly, because now the MILF
knows it can go on shooting and killing the government troops and get
away with it, because the rebels now know that the Philippine president
and commander-in-chief of the military will not wage any kind of
offensive against the Muslim insurgents as Noynoy fears that such a way
will exact a high price of blood, and that there would be a terrible
toll on human lives..... MORE

The son and heir apparent of the late Colonel Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam,
is still in Libya. He is free and will go on with resistance, he
reportedly claimed in an address to supporters aired by Syria’s Arrai TV
Channel, loyal to the Libyan ex-leader.

­“We continue our resistance. I am in Libya, I am alive, free and intend to go to the very end and exact revenge,” Russia’s “RIA Novosti” news agency quotes Saif al-Islam as saying on the Syrian Channel on Saturday night..... MORESource: Russia Today

Is NATO using forbidden weaponry in
Libya? Below is video footage of what is purported to be attacks using
white phosphorous (as it did in Kosovo, as it did in Iraq). The graphic
images of the effects upon human beings this horrific substance has are
too horrendous for us to place here, but a search will reveal the
demonic mindset involved in deploying this substance. But then again
with NATO, is anyone really surprised?

The Algerian site Algeria-isp.com has
announced that 1,200 civilians have been murdered by NATO in Bani Walid,
where prohibited weaponry has been used. One of these weapons is the
so-called poor man's atom bomb, namely the FAE bomb, or Fuel Air
Explosive, which is a horrific demonic weapon designed to burn all the
oxygen in a determined area, suffocating all living beings within its
radius of operation. The source says this weapon has been used in Bani
Walid, Tarhouna, Khomse, Misrata and Sirte, among other theatres.

10/23/2011
Time and again, people hear
it as some kind of an air-tight defense or an infallible excuse. It is
often made to appear that everything is alright, that there is really
nothing to worry about. The allegation is often repeated invocation of
public officials specifically challenged — but usually fail as a matter
of course, to keep law and order in the country. When a bomb explodes
here or there — no problem. It is but an “isolated case!” When a murder
or rape happens now and then — there is nothing to be disturbed about.
It is simply and “isolated case!” When these or those criminals commit
brazen and/or perpetrate odious acts — be at ease and at peace. It is
nothing more than this and that “isolated case!”

Much worse is
when the well known phenomenon of criminal propensity and/or widespread
reality in the country is appended to none other than certain policemen
themselves — when they are the principal authors, if not close
collaborators in the staging of one crime after another. What is this?
No big deal. All their respective lawless actions are but one “isolated
case” after another! No cause for alarm. Just live and sleep in peace..... MORE

10/23/2011
Of course every Filipino
wants peace in our land. When there is peace, there is stability and
economic progress. But what price do we have to pay just to attain
peace, specifically in Mindanao, when the group or people like the MILF
rebels with whom we are negotiating to attain peace are not really up to
it. Can we just sit back while our brother soldiers are slaughtered,
beheaded and mutilated by the same people who claim are interested to
attain peace? Certainly this is double talk.

Despite the clear
indications that we are being given the runaround by the MILF, it seems
the leader of our country is buying the insurgents’ propaganda tactics
posted in the Internet. Nothing can be more transparent than the bodies
of 19 young soldiers killed by the MILF in Basilan and seven more bodies
killed by them in Zamboanga Sibugay. And not to forget that previously,
14 dead bodies of our soldiers were found with their heads removed and
the perpetrators are the same people who want to talk peace with the
government..... MORE

President
Aquino started to move yesterday in reaction to the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front’s (MILF) slaying of 27 soldiers and policemen thus far
in a wave of violence in Mindanao but ironically the victims’ comrades
in arms were at the receiving end with Philippine Army spokesman Col.
Antonio Parlade Jr. and Special Operations Task Force commander Col
Alexander Macario ordered relieved.

Aquino ordered the sacking of
Parlade supposedly for issuing personal comments regarding the ongoing
peace negotiations between the government and the MILF.

The Palace
castigated Parlade for talking about policy issues and airing opinion
during a television interview where he said the ceasefire with the MILF
prevents government troops from going after those responsible for the
deadly ambush last Tuesday that resulted in the initial death of 19
members of the Army’s special forces..... MORE

10/23/2011
Calls for the Aquino
administration to reassess its ceasefire agreement with the secessionist
group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) snowballed yesterday with no
less than Vice President Jejomar Binay and President Aquino’s chief
ally Sen. Francis Escudero calling for a review if not a suspension of
the truce deal.

Binay said he is calling for a review of the
ceasefire agreement in light of recent clashes involving government
troops and MILF rebels that resulted in the slaying of 27 soldiers thus
far.

“I am deeply disturbed by the recent incidents in Mindanao.
The lives of gallant soldiers and policemen have been lost and I offer
my deepest condolences to their families,” said Binay who is currently
in Bangkok for the Asia Pacific Regional Scout committee meeting.

“I
strongly urge that we revisit the terms of the ceasefire agreement with
the MILF. We should be very clear about accountabilities. Those who
violate it should be punished. There should be greater candor,
acceptance of responsibilities and a display of good faith,” he added..... MORE

10/23/2011
A Filipino migrants’ rights
group in the Middle East over the weekend warned former overseas
Filipino workers (OFWs), especially those repatriates during the surge
of the political upheavals in Libya to take caution on jobs offered by
some unscrupulous recruitment agents amid existing deployment ban.

Migrante-Middle
East (M-ME) regional coordinator John Leonard Monterona said he is
receiving queries from former OFWs who used to works in Libya about jobs
offered by recruitment agencies, local and foreign, for deployment in
Libya.

“It was expected that ex-OFWs, mostly repatriates due to
the Libyan upheavals, are considering to comeback to work there. In
addition, there are would-be OFWs, too, now looking for jobs
deployment in Libya,” Monterona said.

Monterona added it is fully
understandable that ex-Libya OFWs and would-be OFWs, as early as this,
are now seeking jobs for deployment in Libya as the only option left
amid dire economic condition and being jobless in the Philippines..... MORE

10/23/2011
San Juan Rep. Joseph Victor
“JV” Ejercito yesterday warned President Aquino against making
statements that would further demoralize the ranks of the Armed Forces
of the Philippines (AFP).

This was in the aftermath of Aquino’s
statement blaming the AFP for the bloody encounters with elements of the
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Basilan and Zamboanga Sibugay,
resulting in the deaths of at least 26 military personnel.

“P-Noy
should be more cautious in making statements that may cause an
unprecedented demoralization within the ranks of the Armed Forces of the
Philippines,” Ejercito said.

Ejercito, in reaction to Aquino’s
statement, added “let us investigate further on who is to blame” in the
light of the killing of 19 AFP soldiers by the MILF last October 18..... MORE

A
sub-contractor in the asphalt overlaying of the Osmeña flyover on Gil
Puyat Avenue (formerly Buendia) in Makati yesterday bared the materials
used in the repair of the flyover was grossly overpriced by at least P72
million.

At the weekly Annabel’s Forum, Cesar Reyes, assistant
vice president for construction of the Pacific Concrete Products Inc.,
(PCPI) which was contracted to supply, lay and pave asphalt in the
northbound portion of the Osmeña flyover, revealed that the Fiber
Reinforcement Polymer (FRP) was overpriced from P340 per square meter to
P9,428.29 per square meter.

Worse, Reyes, an engineer by
profession, said the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)
altered the original plan of having to lay FRP in only 199 square meters
of the flyover to cover the whole 8,000 square meters of the bridge.

Thus, instead of costing only P2.72 million, the government had to pay P75,426,320, for a difference of P72,706,320..... MORE